Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,899, Amos Dunbar, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Dunbar, Amos
S 37899
CONTENTS

Connecticut Hous.
1829
Amos Dunbar, Capt Drowbridge Map Private, 4 Connecticut line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut , at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 st of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of Jun 1818, and sent to the Pensioner at Plymouth, Conn t .
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818.
4 months 14/30 $ 35.73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
77 Three years
Residence Plymouth, Litchfield Co.
Wolfeborough sent to Frederick Wolcott 9 Oct 1820. Litchfield Cont

District of Connecticut ss. County of Litchfield, Goshen Court.
On this 4 th day of July 182 0 personally appeared in open Court, being a court of RECORD for said county in said district, having the power to fine and imprison Thomas Dyer
aged 72 years resident in the said county, who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows :
For the months of May 1775 he enlisted for seven months and served said time in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Capt. Joseph Trowbridge's Company part of the time in the Reg t commanded by Col. Keith and a part of the time commanded by Col. Bendel. - In the year 1776 he was called out at two different times in the Militia served three months at each time in the State of New York. In May 1777 he again enlisted for three years & joined the army at P'keepsie in the State of New York in Capt. Dyer's Company in the Reg t commanded by Col. John Shuler and served during the said three years for which he enlisted Dyer all of the foregoing time he served as a private soldier. He was in the battle at Germantown in Pennsylvania in 1777. His original discharges on which he has received a pension was dated the 21 st day of April 1818 and his certificate is numbered 129.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me ; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

A true & complete list of Amos Dunbar's property
  Estate during my life in six acres of land and a small old farm house, all valued at twenty dollars a year 25-00   One cow valued at 15-00   one sheep 4-00   1 chest of drawers 50 years old 1-50   1 Cow chest 50 years old 1-50   1 brass kettle 20 years old 1-50   1 Iron kettle 2-25   one pot 0-25 - 1 old chair 50 years old 0-25 1-50   2 pails 0-50 - 1 tin Milk pail 0-50 1-00   1 Tin pot 0-06 - 1 axe 0-83 - 1 hoe 0-50 1-39   1 pitchfork 0-06 - 1 shovel 0-50 1-56   2 wooden bowls 29-20 
Loans in debt to Mark upson $10-00 to Stephen St. Litch 3-00
My family consists of myself and a wife Martha Dunbar 70 years old infirm and unable to labour but little. I am a day labourer on a farm but am so infirm as not to be able to labour but very little being afforded with a rafter & with occasional turns of the ground.
Amos Dunbar

Sworn to and declared on the 4 th day of July A. D. 1820 before said Court -
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk -
James D. Dunshee
1629 Coll
Oct 1820
I, Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court, in the county of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath - and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the court ; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is forty nine — dollars and twenty cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 19 th day of July 1820
Clerk of the County Court for the County of Litchfield.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk -

Mrs Dunbar 21 April
Correct D r
by Lewis Mrs. Lawrence
Am more than worthy years of it and any infirm and from any induced servitude

I Amos Dunbar of Plymouth in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut do hereby declare that in May or June 1777 I entered the service of my country in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy as a private soldier in the Company commanded by Capt. David Smith in Col. John Chandler's Mili- tia and joined the army at P'keepsill in the State of New York and continued in the said service for the term of two years then after and thereafter until I was honorably discharged in my service which com- pleted the time of my enlistment. That as the last part of the time for which I enlisted was served by a substitute, I never received any discharge. That during said service I was a part of the time in the State of New York & a part of the time in New Jersey and Penn- sylvania, but cannot recollect the name of the General who commanded that part of the army to which I belonged. That during said war I also served as a private soldier in other other short terms. That the whole time I served in the Revolutionary war was as much as three years besides hiring a substitute for one year. That I belonged to the Connecticut line and was on the Continental establish- ment. I further declare and declare that I am more than seventy years of age and am infirm and from my reduced circumstances

in life stand in need of the assistance of my country for support. Amos Dunbar
State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss. On the 21 st day of April 1814 personally appeared the above named Amos Dunbar and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed and on the same day appeared Samuel Barker of said Plymouth and Isaac Living- ston of Washington in Litchfield County and made solemn oath that they were and are acquainted with the said Dunbar and that he served in the army in the manner by him within deposed
Before me
Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge of Litchfield Court of Common Pleas

State of Connecticut Litchfield County Jr.
- I Augustus Pettibone Esq. Chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Litchfield do hereby certify the foregoing affidavit and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Amos Dember served in the Revolutionary war as a private soldier against the common enemy on the continental establishment for more than nine months; and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and sealed the seal of the said court to be affixed this 21 st day of April A.D. 1818
Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge

37899 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 37,899
Miss Dunbar Rev Rev. Ward
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 143
[Arrangement of 1870.]